[Chat/Message Boards] Message Board Removal Feedback
Feedback regarding the removal of message boards from Fantasy Baseball in the 2023 season.
Fantasy league message boards are not going to be available for the current season however you can still access historical message board posts through your fantasy profile. You can continue to communicate with your league via Fantasy Chat, email and commissioner notes. Moving forward we are investing in chat as the best place for league communication and will be adding threading, pinning, polls and more. We welcome your feedback below about how your league used message boards to help us make future improvements.
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Daniel Gordon commented
This is lame. Can’t we just have a message board?
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Mike Gallay commented
Terrible move. At least give a season’s notice AND have your bugs and features in the “fantasy chat” worked out. There are so many integral communications which happen on boards used for 20+ years such as records of traded players and picks, rules, manager discussions, league previews, and the social history of a social game. Not everyone enjoys communicating exclusively on their phone, on an app, so you’ve restricted laptop/desktop users immensely. This is a mistake.
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Benny McElyea commented
Not having message boards are a stupid idea in my opinion. Stupid enough that we are looking at FANTRACKS and other baseball homes.
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Paul S Stepka commented
Ok so we are going to CHAT, Where TF is the chat link? I need to start my offline draft
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D K commented
Of all the dumb changes possible. Removing a vital part of League communication without a sufficient replacement. The MESSAGE BOARD all my Leagues and I'm sure in every single League out there is a critical part of running a League, player communication, and more.
This is just gonna cause a many players to leave, good Managers and make it ******* those that do remain -
Paul Chussil commented
You are completing screwing up long-time leagues with members who live in different continents!! The message board has been an essential part of communication. Guess these leagues might have to consider moving to other platforms other than yahoo.
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stephen hastings commented
I don't understand the change to remove the message boards. As someone in multiple dynasty leagues it will now be harder to reach out to people who are not as phone savvy. If you gave some warning it would be nice, as our baseball dynasty league has already started prep for this season and made multiple posts in the message board about changes.
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Richard Upright commented
This was a dumb move! Why did you remove a very important feature when its replacement wasn't available yet? There is NO CHAT if you play online. I've had my league on Yahoo Fantasy since 2001, but will now consider moving it to ESPN.
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David Marett commented
Its funny how our only way to complain is a....MESSAGE BOARD. It is basic. It is easy. It is vital. It has been around since the internet began. If there is a 'reason' why you are removing it let us know.
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PJ A commented
This may be the cause of me moving my league to Fantfraxx
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Hani Dee commented
Stupid decision made by suits or by people that have never played fantasy sports.
The message board is an essential feature that allows managers and admin to communicate the league schedule, important dates, a place to store league rules, process trades involving prospects and draft picks since you don't give us any way to roster prospects or manage future draft picks.
Many leagues also use it for drafting because the best feature of the message board is it notifies managers when a post is made there by making the draft pretty much hands off.
Managers are already dropping out and leagues are going to fold, some of my leagues have decided to go to Fantrax or FleaFlicker
It is your loss
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Hani Dee commented
What the **** are you doing Yahoo?
LEAGUES WILL FOLD AND PEOPLE WILL GO ELSE WHWERE
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KP Watershed commented
514
comments
here,
in just 9 days on this user issues forum.and yet this is the "12th ranked" issue.
by comparison,
the "1st ranked" issue only has 265 comments, after 452 days.let's be real,
Message Board Removal is the #1 issue impacting Yahoo Fantasy.
but @YahooFantasy won't even admit it.shameful.
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C C commented
For dynasty leagues, you've made it a lot harder to remain on the Yahoo platform. I used the message board to organize our five round offseason draft. Not everyone uses mobile phones or is computer savvy enough to use the not-so-user-friendly chat feature Yahoo has. As a commissioner, you've made my job way harder now and I don't see how removing a message board improves the user experience in any fashion. It can't be a huge cost to Yahoo, so it feels like you're just making your product worse for no actual benefit to anyone.
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Tony Parslow commented
I hope some people will move to FleaFlicker. I think it's a good site for Baseball. I'm doing football on Fantrax.
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MARK KADINGER commented
when is mock draft available
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Bert Sahlberg commented
We used message board to communicate because several owners didn't update email addresses or use secondary ones. I would be OK with this change BUT WITH SOME WARNING. It's BS what you did. I will be scrambling to notify everyone of the league renewal because we are not all friends except for this fantasy game and are spread out across the country. A 24-hour window to communicate with message boards would be nice.
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Jeff commented
Message boards allow both the opportunity for back-and-forth discussion (re: rules changes, potential trades, draft order, etc.) as well as posting important reference information (such as draft order, keeper rules, in-person events, prizes, historical information, and future information).
They provide a place that can be referenced by or responded to by all managers. Those who opt in can receive notifications about message board updates; those who don't can access them at their convenience.
Message board content is different from chat - it's more permanent and less urgent. Chat's not a reference tool, it's a real-time communication tool. Our league uses text messaging for that.
It's great for smack talk, discussions during a game, or trade banter. But it's not a comprehensive reference and communication tool.
While it's great that Yahoo's contemplating expanding their chat feature to look more like ... dare I say it ... a MESSAGE BOARD ... right now, it's not. If doing so was Yahoo's plan, it should've been ready to roll for the 2023 season -- with all of its features completed. And if it wasn't ready for the 2023 season, it should have been kept in development until 2024.
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Dave Slammer Marrier commented
I'm sorry to say Yahoo, you will be losing me and probably thousands of other longtime fantasy players because of this. The league message boards are by far the best means of league communication. Fantasy Chat is and will be garbage. Too much time to sort thru all the different chats going on as well as all the league transactions. Just not as useful as a league message board. You still have time to make this right and add it back.
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Rich Lewandowski commented
The Message Board was the easiest way for managers to communicate with each other and the Commish. Why mess with a good thing? If you are going to change things, change them to make things better... not harder.